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Fluctuations of Fitness Distributions and the Rate of Muller’s Ratchet

The accumulation of deleterious mutations is driven by rare fluctuations that lead to the loss of all mutation free individuals, a process known as Muller’s ratchet. Even though Muller’s ratchet is a paradigmatic process in population genetics, a quantitative understanding of its rate is still lacki...

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Autores principales: Neher, Richard A., Shraiman, Boris I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Genetics Society of America 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3416007/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22649084
http://dx.doi.org/10.1534/genetics.112.141325